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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 81, No. 66 

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Economic Research Service 

Notice of Intent To Request New 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Economic Research Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35), this notice 

announces the Economic Research 

Service’s intention to request approval 

for a new information collection for a 

Pilot Survey on Food Acquisition 

among American Households. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received by June 6, 2016 to be assured 

of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments 

concerning this notice to John Kirlin, 

Food Assistance Branch, Food 

Economics Division, Economic Research 

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

1400 Independence Ave. SW., Mailstop 

1800, Washington, DC 20250–0002. 

Comments may also be submitted via 

email to JKIRLIN@ers.usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Kirlin, JKIRLIN@ers.usda.gov. Tel. 202– 

694–5398. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: National Food Study Pilot. 

OMB Number: To be assigned by 

OMB. 

Expiration Date: Three years from the 

date of approval. 

Type of Request: New information 

collection. 

Abstract: The National Food Study 

(NFS) pilot will be conducted over a 

four-month period from October 2016 

through January 2017. The survey will 

collect nationally representative data 

from 500 households, including 150 

households participating in the 

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Program (SNAP, formerly the Food 

Stamp Program). Each eligible 

household will be asked to record their 

food acquisitions for each household 

member over a 7-day period. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture 

collected similar data in 2012–2013 

with the National Household Food 

Acquisition and Purchase Survey 

(FoodAPS, OMB Control Number 0536– 

0068). Participating household members 

in that survey used food booklets and a 

hand-held scanner to record information 

about all food acquisitions during a 7- 

day period. There is evidence in the 

FoodAPS data of some drop-off in the 

frequency of reported food acquisitions 

toward the end of the 7-day reporting 

periods. FoodAPS was a nationally 

representative survey with oversampling of households participating in 

the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Program (SNAP) and non-SNAP 

households with low incomes. 

The main objective of the NFS pilot 

is to test an alternative method of 

collecting data on the foods acquired by 

American households that leads to more 

complete and accurate information 

about patterns of food acquisitions. 

Other objectives are to explore the 

feasibility of expanding the population 

of interest to include households 

receiving benefits from the Special 

Supplemental Nutrition Program for 

Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) 

and to collect more complete and 

accurate information on income. Data 

will be collected from households in 

nine states. 

The sample will be selected from an 

address-based sampling frame. A total of 

2,154 households from 12 Primary 

Sampling Units (PSUs) in nine states 

will receive a letter requesting their 

participation in the study. The pilot will 

also test the effectiveness of using WIC 

and SNAP administrative data at 

identifying SNAP and WIC participants. 

The NFS pilot data collection begins 

by screening households via an inperson interview to determine eligibility 

and identifying a primary respondent 

(person who does the majority of the 

grocery shopping and cooking for the 

household) within eligible households. 

Next, an in-person initial interview is 

completed with the primary respondent. 

Then, all members of the household age 

11 years and older are asked to access 

a web-based system daily to report food 

or drinks obtained during their assigned 

data collection week. Upon completion 

of the week-long data collection, a final 

in-person interview is completed with 

the primary respondent. To determine 

measurement error, immediately after 

the final interview, a follow-up reinterview will be conducted with two 

household members about their last two 

reporting days and to probe for missing 

information. 

Food obtained by household members 

includes food purchased or obtained for 

free and brought into the home as well 

as food purchased or acquired for free 

outside of the home. Information to be 

collected about each food event will 

include place name and type, location, 

date, total cost, and method(s) of 

payment. Food item information to be 

collected will include an item 

descriptor, quantity acquired, unit price, 

and use of coupons or store loyalty 

cards that reduce actual cost. 

Participants also will be asked to upload 

photos of receipts. Participants will 

receive reminder email messages or text 

messages throughout the week if they do 

not report acquisitions for a day. If 

needed, households will be provided 

electronic equipment for the duration of 

their data collection period to assist 

them in accessing the web instrument. 

Recruited households will receive $50 

upon completion of the initial 

interview. Households will accumulate 

a $3 per day credit for each eligible 

household member whose food 

purchase behavior (including 

affirmation of no acquisitions) is 

recorded in the web system for that day, 

and a bonus of $50 for households 

whose members record food 

acquisitions for all 7 days and that 

complete the final interview. Finally, $5 

will be provided to the household if 

members complete the income 

questions online. 

All data collection instruments will 

ask only the most pertinent information, 

and the web-based system will be as 

respondent- and user-friendly as 

possible. Responses are voluntary and 

confidential. The instruments and 

procedures will be pretested prior to the 

finalization. 

Responses from the National Food 

Study pilot will be combined for 

statistical purposes and reported only in 

aggregate or statistical form. A final 

report summarizing the findings will 

include an evaluation on the accuracy of 

administrative data used to select WIC 

and SNAP households as well as an 


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evaluation of the feasibility of the webbased data collection system. Because 

this is a pilot test of a new data 

collection mode, there are no plans to 

make the collected data available to the 

public. The data will be analyzed and 

used as the Agency makes plans for a 

full-scale data collection at a future 

date. 

Authority: These data will be collected 

under the authority of 7 U.S.C. 2204(a). ERS 

will comply with OMB Implementation 

Guidance, ‘‘Implementation Guidance for 

Title V of the E-Government Act, 

Confidential Information Protection and 

Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA)’’, 

72 FR 33362, June 15, 2007. Respondent 

information will be protected under the 

CIPSEA and the 7 U.S.C. 2276. 

Affected Public: Respondent groups 

identified include: SNAP households, 

WIC households, and non-SNAP and 

non-WIC households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

The number of respondents is 2,154 

households, of which 580 are expected 

to include SNAP participants. This 

includes: (i) Advance Letter: 2,154 

households; (ii) Screener: 1,551 

households (assumes a10% vacancy rate 

for SNAP households, a 15% vacancy 

rate for non-SNAP households, and a 

72% response rate); (iii) Initial 

Interview: 593 responding households 

and 958 non-responding or non-eligible 

households composed of 540 

households screened out due to 

unfamiliarity with smartphone or 

internet technology (assumes 45% of 

SNAP and 40% of non-SNAP 

households), 248 households screened 

out due to high income (assumes 21% 

of remaining non-SNAP households), 

and 170 households declining to 

participate in the study (assumes 

completion rates of 85% for eligible 

SNAP households and 75% for eligible 

non-SNAP households); (iv) Final 

Interview: 534 households (assumes a 

90% response rate); and (v) Respondent 

Feedback Form: 507 households 

(assumes a 95% response rate). Data 

collection at the individual level 

contributes to household-level burden 

estimates, and the number of individual 

respondents is the number of 

households completing the Initial 

Interview (593) times estimated average 

household size (2.4), or 1424 

individuals. The number of individual 

respondents is: (vi) Training: 1424 

respondents (assumes an average of 2.4 

individuals per household); It is 

assumed that 10% of households decide 

not to continue with the survey after the 

training, leaving 534 households and 

1282 individuals. (vii) Income 

Worksheet: 999 respondents (assumes 

an 85% response rate for SNAP 

households and a 75% response rate for 

non-SNAP households); (viii) Food 

Reporting System and Meals and Snack 

Form: 1026 respondents (assumes an 

80% response rate); and (ix) Reinterview: 961 respondents (assumes a 

90% response rate, 2 persons per 

household). 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: All respondents 11 years 

and older who access the web once 

daily, will respond seven times. 

Respondents who complete the 

screener, initial, and final interviews 

will respond an additional three times. 

Respondents completing the reinterview will provide one additional 

response. 

Estimated Time per Response: 

Reading the advance letter and 

completing the screener, initial, final, 

and feedback instruments will average 

1.33 hours per household (or primary 

respondent). Individuals (including the 

primary respondent) who access the 

web to receive training, provide 

information on food acquisitions, 

income, and meals/snacks, and 

complete the re-interview will average 

1.97 hours per respondent. 

Estimated Total Burden on 

Respondents: 6,394 hours. See table for 

details. 

REPORTING BURDEN

Instrument 

Sample 

size 

Freq 

Responses Non-response/Not eligible Total 

burden 

hours 

Resp. 

count 

Freq 

× 

count 

Min./ 

Resp. 

Burden 

hours 

Nonresp. 

count 

Freq 

× 

count 

Min./ 

Resp. 

Burden 

hours 

Advance letters ....................................................................................... 2154 1 2154 2154 3 108 0 0 0 0 108 

Household-level Data Collection: 

Household Screener ........................................................................ 2154 1 1551 1551 12 310 603 603 5 50 360 

Initial Household Interview ............................................................... 1551 1 593 593 30 297 958 958 1.8 29 326 

Final Household Interview ............................................................... 593 1 534 534 30 267 59 59 3 3 270 

Respondent Feedback Form ........................................................... 534 1 507 507 5 42 27 27 3 1 44 

Total Responding Burden—HH ................................................ 2154 .......... 2154 .......... .......... 1024 .......... .......... .......... 83 1107 

Individual-level Data Collection: 

Training ............................................................................................ 1424 1 1424 1424 45 1068 0 0 0 0 1068 

Income Worksheet—Individual ........................................................ 1282 1 999 999 15 250 283 283 3 14 264 

Food Reporting System ................................................................... 1282 7 1026 7182 25 2993 256 1792 3 90 3083 

Meals and Snacks Form .................................................................. 1282 7 1026 7182 3 359 256 1792 1 30 389

Re-interview ..................................................................................... 1068 1 961 961 30 481 107 107 1 2 482 

Total Responding Burden—Ind. ............................................... 1424 .......... 1424 .......... .......... 5148 301 .......... .......... 136 5286 

Total Responding Burden .................................................. 2154 .......... 2154 .......... .......... 6175 .......... .......... .......... 219 6394 

Estimates of burden hours have been rounded. 

Comments: Comments are invited on: 

(1) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, including 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments may be sent to John Kirlin, 

Resource and Rural Economics Division, 

Economic Research Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, 1400 

Independence Ave. SW., Mailstop 1800, 

Washington, DC 20250–1800. 

Comments may also be submitted via 

fax to the attention of John Kirlin at 


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202–694–5661—or via email to 

JKIRLIN@ers.usda.gov. All comments 

received will be available for public 

inspection during regular business 

hours at the same address. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

become a matter of public record. 

Dated: March 24, 2016. 

Mary Bohman, 

Administrator, Economic Research Service. 

[FR Doc. 2016–07850 Filed 4–5–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Information Collection; 

Comment Request—Report of 

Disqualification From Participation— 

Institutions and Responsible 

Principals/Individuals (FNS–843) and 

Report of Disqualification From 

Participation—Individually Disqualified 

Responsible Principal/Individual or 

Day Care Home Provider (FNS–844) 

AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service 

(FNS), USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice invites the general public and 

public agencies to comment on a 

proposed information collection. This 

collection is an extension, without 

change, of a currently approved 

collection for maintaining the National 

Disqualified List of institutions, day 

care home providers, and individuals 

that have been terminated or otherwise 

disqualified from Child and Adult Care 

Food Program (CACFP) participation. 

These federal requirements affect 

eligibility under the CACFP. The State 

Agencies are required to enter data as 

institutions and individuals become 

disqualified from participating in the 

CACFP. The collection is the result of a 

FNS web-based system constructed to 

update and maintain the list of 

disqualified institutions and individuals 

so that no State agency or sponsoring 

organization may approve any entity on 

the National Disqualified List to ensure 

the integrity of the Program. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before June 6, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions that 

were used; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments may be sent to: Sarah 

Smith-Holmes, Director, Program 

Monitoring and Operational Support 

Branch, Child Nutrition Division, Food 

and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department 

of Agriculture, 3101 Park Center Drive, 

Room 630, Alexandria, Virginia 22302. 

Comments will also be accepted through 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments electronically. 

All written comment(s) will be open 

for public inspection at the office of the 

Food and Nutrition Service during 

regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday) at 3101 

Park Center Drive, Room 640, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22302. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) approval, and will become a 

matter of public record. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sarah Smith-Holmes (703) 305–2063. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: CACFP National Disqualified 

List—Forms FNS–843, FNS–844. 

Form Number: FNS–843 and FNS– 

844. 

OMB Number: 0584–0584. 

Expiration Date: August 31, 2016. 

Type of Request: Extension, without 

change, of a currently approved 

collection. 

Abstract: The Food and Nutrition 

Service administers the Child Nutrition 

Act of 1966, as amended (42 U.S.C. 

1771, et seq.). Section 243(c) of Public 

Law 106–224, the Agricultural Risk 

Protection Act of 2000, amended section 

17(d)(5) of the Richard B. Russell 

National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 

1766(d)(5)(E)(i) and (ii)) by requiring the 

Department of Agriculture to maintain a 

list of institutions, day care home 

providers, and individuals that have 

been terminated or otherwise 

disqualified from Child and Adult Care 

Food Program participation. The law 

also requires the Department to make 

the list available to State agencies for 

their use in reviewing applications to 

participate in the program and to 

sponsoring organizations to ensure that 

they do not employ as principals any 

persons who are disqualified from the 

program. Forms FNS–843 and FNS–844 

are used to collect and maintain this 

data. This statutory mandate has been 

incorporated into § 226.6(c)(7) of the 

Program regulations. In addition, the 

recordkeeping burden associated with 

maintaining documentation related to 

institutions and providers terminated 

for cause at the State agency level is 

captured under the Information 

Collection for 7 CFR part 226, Child and 

Adult Care Food Program OMB Control 

Number 0584–0055, expiration date 

September 30, 2016. Therefore, there is 

no recordkeeping burden associated 

with this collection. 

Affected Public: State Agencies. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

56. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 28. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

1,568. 

Estimate Time Per Response: .50. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 784. 

Affected public Instrument 

Estimated 

number of 

respondents 

Number of responses per 

respondent 

Total annual 

responses 

Estimated total 

hours per 

response 

Estimated total 

burden 

Reporting 

State Agencies ......................................... FNS 843 56 6 336 .50 168 

State Agencies ......................................... FNS 844 56 22 1,232 .50 616 

Total Estimated Reporting Burden ... ........................ 56 ........................ 1,568 ........................ 784 


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